End of an Era

Well, yesterday I said goodbye with my fellow coworkers to a beautiful thing. Our Bridgeland clinic closed for good, dispersing my good friends and I to a handful of other clinics across the city. I will miss the good times, the jokes, the patients, and definitely the barbecue on the balcony. Most of all I will miss the memories of good friends being just that - good friends. But we move on. I will be working with many of these people at another clinic which I have been working part time at. I look forward to new memories and friendships built. This along with other unknown futures in my life remind me once again that God is sovereign. He is with me whether I feel Him or not. He walks before me into my unknown, seeing all that is to come and preparing me for it.

Sushi Masters

Last night the ladies of Sema had the priviledge of learning how to make Sushi from a true sushi master - the mother of one of the ladies at church. Was it ever fun. I was pretty gung ho about the whole thing and managed to make some pathetic looking sushi, but it all tasted good in the end. What a fun idea!
Sushi Prep

All the ladies

And Gord and I didn't mind one bit that we had our lunches made for today!

I think winter's almost over.

Or at least, I hope. It feels like it's been a long one, but things are starting to swing towards spring and the feeling of new life. Since the last post, we've been pretty busy with a multitude of church events and doing a lot of just hanging out. At the beginning of January we had a Winter Carnival with church. This was my favorite game - Bowling for Penguins.

We just returned from the wedding of our friends Eric and Amber. It was a wonderful time with not that many pictures. (It's amazing how playing the piano for a wedding gets in the way of taking pictures of the ceremony.) Here are some of the keepers. Jon and Dayna

Gord and I

My friend Rachel from Winnipeg! Weddings are so great for reunions!

As I write this, it's a Tuesday afternoon and I am reminded how grateful I am to now be working 4 days a week. I work two days each at two clinics and one of the clinics is closing in a month, which feels like a sad ending to a new phase of work, as I truly loved the clinic that's closing. It seems like sudden changes like this prompt thoughts of new beginnings and Gord and I are in a phase of thinking on what the future might bring and how God can best use us. Gord also started his last period of school for his plumbing apprenticeship this week. I'm hoping to weasel a few extra house chores out of him while he has some extra time! I can't complain, though after last night's fabulous barbequed red pepper and parmesan chicken breasts!